8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer

The 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer was a German Waffen-SS cavalry division that existed from 1942 to 1945. The division, named for the Franconian nobleman Florian Geyer of the 16th century, fought on the Eastern Front of World War II against the Soviet Union; 40% of its members were from Transylvania or Serbia. The division was responsible for the massacre of tens of thousands of Soviet civilians, and the division helped in putting down the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland. In 1945, the division was destroyed during the Budapest Offensive, and its commander Joachim Rumohr killed himself.